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Re: issues with recent doprnt-related changes


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: issues with recent doprnt-related changes
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 14:13:06 -0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> And we never show "length, including
>> terminating nul-byte" to Elisp, so the nul-byte shouldn't matter

> If you are sure of that, then I agree it's fine to use
> MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM+1.  I wasn't sure.  I do see in C variables that
> explicitly use the string position of the null byte; I was afraid that
> they could somehow leak to Lisp.

I don't know enough to guarantee you that they can never leak to Lisp,
but I can't think of any reason why they should.  And note that "the
position of the nul byte" is the same as "the length of the list", so
it's still <= MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM.  It's only the position after the
nul byte that would overflow.


        Stefan



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